Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, 1408mend the ruff and sing, ask questions and sing, pick 1409his teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of 1410melancholy, sold a goodly manor for a song.

I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court. 1414Our old lings and our Isbels o'th' country are nothing 1415like your old ling and your Isbels o'th' court. The brains 1416of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to love, as an 1417old man loves money, with no stomach.

1421I have sent you a daughter-in-law. She hath recovered the 1422King, and undone me: I have wedded her, not bedded her, 1423and sworn to make the "not" eternal. You shall hear I am 1424run away. Know it before the report come. If there be 1425breadth enough in the world, I will hold a long distance. My 1426duty to you. Your unfortunate son, 1427Bertram.

So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he 1442does. The danger is in standing to't: that's the loss of 1443men, though it be the getting of children. Here they 1444come will tell you more. For my part I only hear your 1445son was run away.

When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which 1461never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body 1462that I am father to, then call me husband, but in such a 1463"then" I write a "never."